Today’s Bellringer 02/ 28/ 14

1. Today’s Bellringer02/28/14 Correct the sentence errors. look at this! Jake shouted. i found a watch under the bench

2. Examples of Inverted Order • Prepositional Phrase • After lunch we/ went home. • Helping Verb -Areyou/ going to the concert? • Adverb • Yesterdaywe/ went to my grandfather’s house.

3. Write I if the sentence is in inverted order or N if the sentence is in natural order. • The tired workers went home at midnight. • The unruly children suddenly ran toward the busy street! • In the early evening thousands of black bats eagerly poured from the huge cave entrance. • Yesterday the mechanic listened carefully to the whining sound from the engine of the car. • For several hours the enormous yellow balloon in the sky floated aimlessly. • After summer vacation the football players eagerly gathered around the coach. • The band members worked very hard on the competition music. • Are you going to the volleyball game today? • The dense fog finally lifted in the late afternoon. • During a heavy snowstorm the daring skier raced for help for the stranded family.

4. Today’s Bellringer 02/27/14

5. Copy these notes into your notebook Conjunction- a word that joins words or groups of words together. The three most common are and, or, and but. Conjunctions are labeled with a C. Compound Parts- when words are joined by a conjunction, the parts that are joined are called compound parts. The label C is written in front of the regular labels. CSN for compound subject noun or CV for compound verb.

6. Let’s Classify! ____The dogs and cats fought ferociously in the dark alley way.____

7. ____Come and look out the front window at the snow on our sidewalk!___